"Introduction to PHP" Announcements
Matt Buscemi
- Catch up on my emails from prospective participants with questions. If you have emailed me and haven't received a response, I will make sure it's the first thing I do tomorrow.
- Improve the clarity of my sign-up task. Of course, I will not be changing the task or its component parts. If you have already submitted your sign up task, and you feel confident about it, you won't have to change a thing. However, I have received a lot of emails with questions asking me to clarify parts of it, so it must be that there is room for improvement in my presentation of the task. I will be doing my best to have my clarifications in place before the weekend is out (before the end of the day on January 16). I will not be closing submissions until January 22, as stated on the course home page.
- Follow up with everyone who has been gracious enough to offer their assistance as co-coordinator. I haven't even been able to get back to all of you. I apologize. I will be emailing all of you this weekend with more information about how I plan on dividing up the participants into groups and how I expect our relationship as co-facilitators to work. I think I may have given some of you some brief outline of this, but I will clarify everything to everyone in a single email this weekend. Once again, thank you so much for offering to help.
Pippa Buchanan
that's great - I hope that you haven't been too overloaded with emails from applicants and interested people. Good luck with getting everything done this weekend.
It also sounds like you've received a lot of interest from people who are offering help to you as co-coordinators. That's great!
If you haven't already, you also send a message to all applicants via the Broadcast tool within the course management system on P2PU.org? While many of the applicants are here on the list, it's difficult to guarantee that they'll read this thread. :-)
Thanks,
Pippa
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Jessica Ledbetter
I think that's a great idea and am probably going to do something
similar or set up heavy duty filtering. I assume it helps keep things
organized. Does it, Andy?
Andy Lindeman
... and I review them in batches.
The same concept could go for any email client/service.
Andy Lindeman
http://www.andylindeman.com/
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Fergus
PHP course are closed. The response to the class was overwhelming,
with hundreds of applicants.
I believe the co-ordinator, Matt, originally planned to accept 20
applicants, but received well over ten times that number. As a result,
he has sought and received the assistance of a few co-facilitators,
but even so the number of available seats is only 80. Even with this
extraordinary step, the substantial majority of applicants must be
turned away.
Priority was given to those applicants who submitted complete
applications, fulfilling the required sign-up tasks. Of those,
applications were reviewed for the most promising learners -- those
who read, understood, and followed the sign-up tasks suggesting that
they would be the most likely to benefit from the course and be a
benefit to their fellow learners.
To any who feel discouraged that they were not accepted or missed the
opportunity to register, I fully expect that this course will continue
in the future and other opportunities will be there for your
applications to be successful. I would also suggest for those whose
applications were incomplete or did not follow directions that it
would be best to review the sign-up tasks fully and to complete them
to the best of your ability, especially when there is so much
competition for seats in the course.
As always, the views I express here are only my own. I do not
represent P2PU or the School of Webcraft, nor do I speak for the
primary co-ordinator or anyone else involved in this or any course.
I'm new to this community and am learning about it and how it works.
Matt Buscemi
Pippa Buchanan
*** Love Bomb / Round of Applause 2.0 *** to Fergus, Tousif Baig, Amy Donahue and Saulo Venancio who along with Matt have volunteered to help co-facilitate the course and allow an extra 60 people into the course.
It's people like you who make it extra lovely to work within this community.
Thank you.
P*
J Henderson
e-learning because education is going digital. I work at a innovative
technology store and seeing kids barely able to walk use computers is
fascinating. The younger generation knows nothing but digital technology
and they will learn via the internet and cloud. I just want to say a
GREAT Thank you to the contributors and creators of this great platform.
I shall provide screencasts of my contribution and will upload the
interaction weekly on every course to get more people here in Dallas
interested. I look forward to learning and engaging with EVERYONE this
is quite exciting for a student who is sitting out of school this year!!
J Henderson
BluJConcepts
Dallas, TX 75243
Cell: 832.303.BLUJ
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:54:16 +1100, Pippa Buchanan
<Pippa.B...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *** Love Bomb / Round of Applause *** to Matt and Fergus for
> explaining the situation so well. (Are you able to write blog posts
> about the co-facilitation process?)
>
> *** Love Bomb / Round of Applause 2.0 *** to Fergus, Tousif Baig, Amy
> Donahue and Saulo Venancio who along with Matt have volunteered to
> help co-facilitate the course and allow an extra 60 people into the
> course.
>
> It's people like you who make it extra lovely to work within this
> community.
>
> Thank you.
>
> P*
>
> On 25 January 2011 07:01, Matt Buscemi wrote:
> Fergus,
>
> Very well said!
>
> When I closed the "Introduction to PHP" course on January 22, I had
> 238 applications! Thankfully, Fergus, as well as Tousif Baig, Amy
> Donahue and Saulo Venancio have agree to help coordinate, raising the
> number of participants we can accept substantially. But -- 238
> applications. And of those, 156 completed the sign up task. It is
> simply impossible for us to meet that demand, and I sincerely regret
> having to turn away qualified applicants.
>
> I hope that, as Fergus says, the community will continue with
> Introduction to PHP courses in the future. I expect that the five of
> us co-facilitating Intro to PHP will learn a lot about running a PHP
> course, and that in the next round of courses, we'll have an even
> better, more refined and improved syllabus and course experience to
> offer to potential participants.
>
> - Matt
>
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On Jan 24, 4:54 pm, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Bucha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *** Love Bomb / Round of Applause *** to Matt and Fergus for explaining the
> situation so well. (Are you able to write blog posts about the
> co-facilitation process?)
the challenges we face with the multi-section approach. I'm happy to
say, though, that I think by identifying those challenges and ways
they can be solved, we can contribute to a protocol that will make it
much easier for courses to be organized in this way in the future.
> *** Love Bomb / Round of Applause 2.0 *** to Fergus, Tousif Baig, Amy
> Donahue and Saulo Venancio who along with Matt have volunteered to help
> co-facilitate the course and allow an extra 60 people into the course.
>
> It's people like you who make it extra lovely to work within this community.
us all too. It means a lot seeing you on here rallying the community
and encouraging all of us sincerely.
JWeb
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